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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.26.17
* True confessions of a Biglaw partner. [Law Practice Today]
* If you could prevent one person on Trump’s shortlist from getting on the Court, who would it be? [Slate]
* Will President Trump, or in the alternative, Congress, do anything about the bane of lawyers’ existence: discovery? [The Hill]
* Tim Kaine had some pretty cool alternate plans on inauguration day. [Huffington Post]
* The Netherlands’s safe abortion fund. [The Slot]
* Forever 21’s fighting infringement. [The Fashion Law]
* If you’ll be in Philly on Monday the 30th, please come to “Fred Korematsu Day: A Conversation,” featuring Kermit Roosevelt, author of Allegiance (affiliate link), and our very own David Lat. [Japan America Society]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.04.16
* Will ballot selfies ruin democracy? A debate between Rick Hasen and Elie Mystal. [New York Times]
* Tim Kaine’s law school roommate dishes on the experience. [Salon]
* How to survive your first year as an associate. [Ms. JD]
* Thinking about faking it as a lawyer? You could go to jail for that. [Patch]
* Republicans are already talking impeachment if Hillary wins, but can they pull it off? [LawNewz]
* The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL) is partnering with Legal.io to improve access to pro bono and legal referral services. [Legaltech News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.31.16
* The ABA Forum on Communications Law will publish First Amendment lawyer Susan Seager’s Donald Trump “libel bully” article, despite its reservations about doing so — reservations that resulted in a media firestorm. The ABA said the following: “Hopefully, this matter will shine a light on the problem of frivolous lawsuits that turn the justice system into a weapon that has a chilling effect on free speech.” [ABA Journal]
* Uh-oh! Following the abrupt departure of four of its senior partners, King & Wood Mallesons has opted to pause its partner recapitalization plan in order to reassess its financial footing. The firm believes it will take about four weeks to complete that process. “If I was a partner there I would be pretty worried,” said a former partner. [Legal Week]
* “I never thought that my restroom use would ever turn into any kind of national debate.” The Supreme Court has taken up its first true transgender rights case. Many fear that the justices may return a 4-4 deadlock decision that will not create a nationwide precedent, but in that case, the Fourth Circuit’s decision would be left in place. [Reuters]
* “If these guys think they’re going to stonewall the filling of that vacancy…, then a Democratic Senate majority will say, ‘We’re not going to let you thwart the law.'” Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says that should he and his running mate win the election, then his party will try to eliminate SCOTUS filibuster rules. [Huffington Post]
* The Justice Department and “election year sensitivities”: Some people are wondering why FBI Director James Comey decided to announce he’d essentially reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails — but had he waited to disclose the information, the FBI’s credibility could have been called into question. [WSJ Law Blog]
* James Gilliland Jr., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton intellectual property litigation partner, RIP. We’ll have more on his untimely death later today. [CBS San Francisco]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.03.16
* Michael Chertoff, who once led the Whitewater congressional investigation, in now endorsing Hillary Clinton. [Bloomberg View] * No, Donald Trump does not understand libel laws. [GQ] * The New York City Council's investigation into the removal of deed restrictions from Rivington House. [Cityland] * Thoughts on strategies for surviving this year's election for African-Americans. [Equal Citizenship Movement] * The year in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions. [FCPA Professor] * Tim Kaine's tortured history with the death penalty. [Buzzfeed] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16
* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to
evadeavoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]
* Just in time for your $180K scale… Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]
* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]
* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]
* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.21.16
* The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, rules that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act by having discriminatory effects on minority voters (but remands on the issue of discriminatory purpose). [How Appealing]
* It appears that yes, Roger Ailes is on his way out at Fox News — thanks in part to the work of lawyers from Paul, Weiss. [New York Times]
* Matt and Melissa Graves, the parents whose two-year-old son was killed by an alligator at Disney’s Grand Floridian resort, will not be suing Disney. [Washington Post]
* Congratulations to exoneree Jarrett Adams, who served nearly eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit, on his admission to the New York bar. [ABA Journal]
* Republican VP nominee Mike Pence is a lawyer, and his Democratic counterpart probably will be as well: shortlisters Tim Kaine, Thomas Perez, and Tom Vilsack are all lawyers, and James Stavridis is a law dean. [New York Times]
* A California man gets convicted in a plot to kill two prosecutors, two FBI agents, and federal judge Andrew Guilford — with a wood chipper. [Los Angeles Times via ABA Journal]
* A New York appeals court affirms a ruling in favor of Boies Schiller in a malpractice suit brought by fashion model Mary Anne Fletcher. [Big Law Business]
* A bit more about former Attorney General Eric Holder’s work for Airbnb (a development we noted yesterday). [American Lawyer]
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